Peter Mayle Quotes
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
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It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.
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I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
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It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.
